"Like most of my contemporaries, I first read The Fountainhead when I was 18 years old. I loved it. I too missed the point. I thought it was a book about a strong-willed architect...and his love life....I deliberately skipped over all the passages about egoism and altruism. And I spent the next year hoping I would meet a gaunt, orange-haired architect who would rape me. Or failing that, an architect who would rape me. Or failing that, an architect. I am certain that The Fountainhead did a great deal more for architects than Architectural Forum ever dreamed." Nora Ephron New York Times Book Review cited in Wikipedia
Richard Neutra, whose von Sternberg house Rand lived in for several years, was fond of saying, to paraphrase, I don't know where she gets her politics, but the sex in that book is modelled on me.